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Sunday, April 5, 2020
Friday, July 7, 2017
Psycho History
The title was suggested by the term “psychohistory” in
the Foundation novels of Isaac Asimov. See the previous post.
See also a 2010 New York Times review of
DeLillo’s novel Point Omega . The review is titled,
without any other reference to L’Engle’s classic tale
of the same name, “A Wrinkle in Time.”
Related material: The Crosswicks Curse.
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A Prime Radiant for Krugman
Paul Krugman:
Asimov’s Foundation novels grounded my economics
In the Foundation novels of Isaac Asimov …
“The Prime Radiant can be adjusted to your mind, and all
corrections and additions can be made through mental rapport.
There will be nothing to indicate that the correction or addition
is yours. In all the history of the Plan there has been no
personalization. It is rather a creation of all of us together.
Do you understand?”
“Yes, Speaker!”
— Isaac Asimov, Second Foundation , Ch. 8: Seldon’s Plan
“Before time began, there was the Cube.“
See also Transformers in this journal.
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Sunday, February 8, 2015
Hungarian Phenomenon
For Autism Sunday —
Mathematician John von Neumann
reportedly died on this date.
“He belonged to that so-called
Hungarian phenomenon….”
— A webpage titled
“Von Neumann, Jewish Catholic”
Illustrations of another Hungarian phenomenon:
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Saturday, May 11, 2013
Core
Promotional description of a new book:
“Like Gödel, Escher, Bach before it, Surfaces and Essences will profoundly enrich our understanding of our own minds. By plunging the reader into an extraordinary variety of colorful situations involving language, thought, and memory, by revealing bit by bit the constantly churning cognitive mechanisms normally completely hidden from view, and by discovering in them one central, invariant core— the incessant, unconscious quest for strong analogical links to past experiences— this book puts forth a radical and deeply surprising new vision of the act of thinking.”
“Like Gödel, Escher, Bach before it….”
Or like Metamagical Themas .
Rubik core:
Non- Rubik cores:
| Of the odd nxnxn cube:
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Of the even nxnxn cube:
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Related material: The Eightfold Cube and…
“A core component in the construction
is a 3-dimensional vector space V over F2 .”
— Page 29 of “A twist in the M24 moonshine story,”
by Anne Taormina and Katrin Wendland.
(Submitted to the arXiv on 13 Mar 2013.)
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Friday, September 9, 2011
Galois vs. Rubik
(Continued from Abel Prize, August 26)
The situation is rather different when the
underlying Galois field has two rather than
three elements… See Galois Geometry.
The coffee scene from “Bleu”
Related material from this journal:
The Dream of
the Expanded Field
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